Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Debug Your Mobile Applications with Socketbug

Mobile Application Developers, while able to produce amazing applications, are limited by the native browsers own limited functionality. Basic features available on desktop browsers are completely absent from mobile browsers. The ability to view source code, debug javascript, or even execute a javascript command from a console are all tools developers have come to expect while developing websites.

This is where Socketbug fills the gap! Socketbug is a Remote Debugging Utility built using Socket.IO. This means you can now use modern browsers ( both mobile and desktop ) to work together to allow you to remotely debug you mobile web applications.



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Friday, July 1, 2011

CSS3 Transitions with Custom Easing Functions

CSS3 transitions are easy to implement, more performant than the setTimeout based alternative & because of this work really well on mobile devices. However, it is not as flexible as the Javascript alternatives is easing functions.

Libraries such as jQuery & Scripty2 have a suite of really compelling functions that just aren’t available with CSS transitions. So, here we have Morf, a Javascript work-around for hardware accelerated CSS3 transitions with custom easing functions.



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